I’m certainly not envious of Greta Gerwig because up until I read your essay I had never heard of her. I am confident I don’t envy anyone or anything. Even though by most people’s standards my life is a failure I don’t care.
Yes and I think that on the other hand, many people whose lives bear “standard” marks of success are eaten up by envy and feelings of lack. At least that’s what I’ve observed over the years!
I am a devoted Nietzschean, even to the point of committing his cardinal sin which is to worship him. He says: to redeem the past is to turn every “it was” into “I wanted it thus”. That alone would I call redemption. Amongst other things it is a way of curing the curse of jealousy.
I’m certainly not envious of Greta Gerwig because up until I read your essay I had never heard of her. I am confident I don’t envy anyone or anything. Even though by most people’s standards my life is a failure I don’t care.
Yes and I think that on the other hand, many people whose lives bear “standard” marks of success are eaten up by envy and feelings of lack. At least that’s what I’ve observed over the years!
I am a devoted Nietzschean, even to the point of committing his cardinal sin which is to worship him. He says: to redeem the past is to turn every “it was” into “I wanted it thus”. That alone would I call redemption. Amongst other things it is a way of curing the curse of jealousy.